suicide rates will rise in japan as people struggle with the aftermath of disaster meanwhile the atomic watchdog says the radiation of the stricken fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. days ahead president obama now calls on the public so pressure congress into a compromise on avoiding default admitting americans verging on a catastrophe caused by washington. and a talk north korean diplomat is invited to read talks in the u.s. to try and revive long stalled negotiations on scrapping pyongyang's controversial nuclear program. and in business russia not its close makes with the majors among

the main losers and then we conclude have a look at the figures in about five minutes from now. live from moscow this is artsy rule research a very warm welcome to you it took just a few minutes for an earthquake and tsunami to devastate. a tragedy that will take years to recover from and for some people it's simply too much to deal with the trauma of thousands of lost lives entire towns leveled and the threat of nuclear catastrophe. thomas now reports on the worrying rise in japanese suicides. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek

shelter anywhere they can some people do. the bucket but the but the problem is the minority. be they have been accused by. their classmates or you know of course by offshore. that they are causing. people to not be. there primarily a move towards self preservation and this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically an injun phonies and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation that there's no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. well those who have moved to

shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here some organic farmers i mean so so because you know for money from us soil is everything they know it's a good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one thing. so. far. i'm very sorry to hear the news. many other or so very much impressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been frankly increased in the months since the disaster

compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. a late increase. in the. centers you know thirty eight centers but here areas because. struggling to the. right they have not had to mix inside this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster last year disaster many people actually lost their jobs or working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have of so many good reasons to commit suicide. causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster

subsided months before in japan sean thomas over to. clean up at the stricken the fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog and said that radiation could be contained by the end of the year . as a visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse because she was the reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami this year because the cause to melt and release dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors leaking into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobson believes the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce that the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect its people . in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation of policy and not really in any way to dealing with

the actual problems that are facing us here and and these two answer still leaching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of the coming into the air and what what's now preoccupied many people in japan is that even for those of us that live far enough away that we thought we were not in any way threatened by the radiation from the plants we're now finding that because of insufficient oversight to the food supply and public health questions that radiation is turning up in all kinds of food products so you're finding now people in far away from fukushima areas are now beginning to realize that they're not going to be escaping the radiation because of that distance and you conditionally besides that there's still a rather chaotic policy about what will be happening in the areas that were contaminated near the plants but outside of the evacuation zone for example or pushing a city we know that they need to go electric when the government informed the power . when they knew that there had been four nuclear meltdowns people were not told to

evacuate at that time and in terms of the current situation there is a great deal of anger especially among parents in fukushima prefecture and nearby and there's not a comprehensive system to try to protect the health of the people in those areas so you are seeing meetings every couple of days in which government officials are being yelled out by local residents who are complaining that they're not being given enough information about the health threats to their children and their families and this information is in many ways here in japan compounding. it was a nuclear energy expert robert jacobs in her russian explaining the current situation in japan. and with r.t. it's good of you to join us today now barack obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate to pressure their politicians in dealing with the that standoff congress has one week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if you want to avoid a avoid

a potentially devastating default in a nationwide interest obama warned that an american default would impact around the world people aimed at republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept the balanced approach in time republican speaker john boehner hit back accusing obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting a blank check republicans and democrats are being locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis washington watcher matthew vote on says the government needs to act fast to avoid an investor exodus. the obama and the democrats in congress just want to keep on spending. and so they would like to see the debt ceiling raised so that they can continue to give rewards to their supporters among the labor unions of the various political organizations that are sympathetic to the democratic party scars the u.s. is a. able to keep raising its debt ceiling because people investors around the world

have confidence in the united states they believe that the u.s. government will honor its outstanding obligations and so as long as people have faith in the investors have faith in the u.s. government and its credit worthiness then the u.s. could keep raising its debt ceiling the problem right now is that the debt is so high that that in itself is starting to become a negative factor that could lead to a credit rating downgrade of the united states government if china loses confidence in. america the american government's ability to pay its debts then the u.s. will have nowhere to run to the u.s. would be only the only choice it would have would be to keep printing money to inflate the currency run the printing presses and risk devastating hyperinflation or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe

austerity measures. you would see still to come for you in the program here could internal politics some of the missile defense stalemate between moscow and washington we've got the latest coming from russia's and going to nato in just a few. polish investigators have concluded that pilot error was to blame for last year's a small against a plane tragedy that's according to media reports the crash in russia claimed the lives of president lech kaczynski and much of the country's political elite also a previously challenged intergovernmental panel finding which i blame the flight crew committee pilots ignored a warning from a russian air traffic controllers to abandon the landing of poland decided to carry out its own investigation the plane crashed during its descent into a russian field and poor weather conditions for ninety six killed. if a resignation is to be published before. a senior north korean diplomat has been

invited to new york for talks on how to revive a stalled negotiations on its controversial nuclear program some suggest he's already on his way to the u.s. the move comes just days after top nuclear envoys from north and south korea got together for the first time in over two years internet security summit in indonesia where they agreed to return to six party talks and soon as possible it goes asians are pro-gun after north korea's a deadly shelling of a south yongpyong island what it claimed was in response to provoke heated military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any the old can be reached by pepe escobar says that will be tough as the north has always seen the u.s. as hostile. acts a little bit of desperation especially because when you look at the build clause which it you will dismantle it you'll nuclear program first and then we decided to

talk to you that's an absolute no no i was in our studio last year you know i confirm from north korean officials directly that this state awfully is the same state of glee as it was fifty eight years ago to more and more is that fifty years and inversely of the armistice that did not ended north korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other if there's an armistice and in the north koreans are see we have to sit down the same with the americans and then we go to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss everything including the nuclear program so this state department now is trying to joke they're going to say first you get rid of your nuclear weapons either therefore no missiles and then we thought so or was it in our audience are going to watch them just special envoy is going to watch is going to say look our position has been the same for the. yes fifty eight years take it or leave it first you have to end the

war it's true and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they do it as a bloc the government of the americas and the zeal that south korea in the minds of pyongyang will force it's to all cute die by american troops there are thirty six to thirty eight thousand us troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea so let's see you start school i really know this some basic difference is important it's absolutely basile didn't start talking . now if you go to r.t. dot com for more comments on where north korea's nuclear program is heading a lot more are waiting for you on line as well listen to some of the other items not the new york hotel maid who accuses the former i.m.f. chief of sexually assaulting her it goes public she says she wants to see dominique strauss kahn of the high profits. and heroes of the world unite we're of course

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cold. war as is feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. rise this could have you with us today it's our duty live from moscow it's quarter past the hour now russia and the u.s. in washington have been trying to find common ground on nato's plans for a missile defense shield in europe at seoul during talks in washington there and says the system is designed to protect the european continent from countries like iran but russia fears the project is aimed at its own military by the u.s. has been plowing ahead with the plan despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato was out tuesday talks afterwards he told us here at r.t. the washington has to overcome its. you know so. there are questions that remain unanswered if missile threats against

europe come from the center of what is the us placing part of its military infrastructure in the north close to russia's borders this is the question we can't get an answer to when we ask for legal guarantees cooper system is not aimed at russia we're told there's a big conflict between republicans and democrats in congress and they start to explain the conflict but we're not interested in why it's important for us is of the us is behind this project and they should provide security for all partners and that right now let's check out some of the other main news from around the world this hour the man who's a confessed to killing seventy six people on a rampage in norway may be charged with crimes against humanity thirty two year old anders the brevik has already been charged in court with terrorism which he denies according of government buildings in central oslo and the massacre at an island youth camp last friday devastated the nation of one hundred thousand people gathered in the capital in tribute to the victims says he targeted norway's leading

party thought failing on immigration. a moroccan a military aircraft carrying eighty one on board has crashed in the south of the country state t.v. news says the seventy eight were killed and three severely injured when their transport went down in the mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have been behind the crash. because of over sent police to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import imposed last week a move led to a rise in ethnic tensions as local serbs resisted the police presence say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals the council has boycott of because of our good place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. the un security council is holding an open debate on the middle east including palestinian plans to declare statehood of

the united nations later this year earlier israel threatened to pull out of the oslo accord if the plan went ahead and nine hundred ninety three agreement is the main road map in resolving the conflict over one hundred countries are promising support for the palestinians in september's phone. call there's a manhunt underway in russia right now and it's women trying to snare themselves a husband men aren't exactly an endangered species here really do outnumber men and i reports on the demographic die lever sparing some suspicious sharing. leads andrea a father of three and husband of three and other years ago and drake got married two years on the proposed again and then again. why should i have used any of them if i love them all really why the country's demographic realities andries side according to the latest census there are ten million more women in russia than

there i mean a shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing the concepts with injuries wise saving me to peace we are worse than i thought he was kidding i realize that he wasn't i never expected something like this happening to me will evolve a huge story you know if you love little understand we never fight for andre the world there's no kind of competition either. and reconsiders himself an ardent christian yet to his wife who brought up muslims but used to be short of duties and conjugal delights within the household also lies in the islamic traditions true for sarah with what i mean i'm all fairly equal if one wants me to buy her something i will but that old boy something of the same price for the other two his world building three houses and three apartments progress there isn't it boredom as extraordinary as it seems andres example is not that train of russia any man our innovation chiefs with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. of the morning and

a sleaze may look strange i agree which we consider it better to be a second or third wife rather than think you are the only one and beetling mistaken this cassady of man is also very down to their propensity to meet in what's described as unhealthy behavior alcoholism and rafa's drugging is cheating away at the country's gene pool that's how you my story are twenty eight years old reasonably smart fairly pretty and very compassionate yet i'm still single and my odds of trying to. no it's against me right every year according to recent poll he in russia forever single man over thirty thousand all single women see you on the lookout for that prince who is the true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder you're always a wandering a brood and that from russia good loan is to go in strong. reason.

most. watch twenty years ago one of the world's a legendary rock bands all but ground to a halt the death of queen's flamboyant front man freddie mercury was undoubtedly a pivotal moment but it's our song writer brian may tells us later in the show that the show did no one on freddie's influence has never faded. it's like a family member you lose them but you don't quite interesting because you take the really. and we were so long together. so. you get that close on from somebody particularly in the creative input with everything famous i think you do it or you can success but in the creative environment you you learn to to know what somebody else might be thinking you might not always be right but you have a feeling and so i still feel that and roger does as well in a particularly good applies more if we work in the queen and we think what would freddie is there any of us would be he would say this. yeah he's part of the

creative process because he's part of what we are because we really chiseled this thing out all together and join freddie and roger so i mean for a while i didn't want to you know i was very. it was a point you know the grieving process where i just didn't want to talk about between didn't want to feel that it was very and except it's history but i sort of got through that and now i regard it as part of my life which will never go away and it shouldn't go away because it's a big part of what i worked to create depression. we talked to brian may and just over an hour's time here safe and although corinne is here with the latest from the world of business that's coming your way after a short break. hungry for the food we've got to eat for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

india oh she's available in the movie going to joy see her children's a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial college the torch was the. new kind of letter to george bush it's a duty to go. read this in the kernel was her turn to retreat. to business here in our thanks for joining me well she is looking forward to expanding its privatization program to spur economic growth deputy prime minister laid out a new plan that was disclosed by betterness to newspaper he suggests the for privatization of fourteen state companies by twenty seventeen however according to the plan the government will keep controlling stake said infrastructure companies like russian will always transplant. the moment for

privatization is gathering dust but it's also partly a function of the fight the phrase to do. it's not so much about the money or the significant amount of money and. the original premise for thirty three billion dollars would be just like we're talking about twenty billion dollars but this is part and parcel of smugness ation program and for here in the key here is state owned companies are not efficient to the point is to get the government out of the economy or to the private sector so this will have hopefully a huge impact in terms of improving productivity. oh a company tank a b.p. has doubled the first half of it ends for its british shareholder b.p. cain k.b.p.s. paid one point six billion dollars to its british partners in dividends overall net profit for the period four and a huff billion dollars almost double last year's results meanwhile b.p.

has reported a net profit of twelve point seven billion dollars for the first six months of the year that's against a loss of eleven billion dollars in the first half of twenty ten caused by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. a quick look at the markets now all reversed from early gains a low brand has at it twenty cents investors are concerned that the u.s. debt deadlock may down to the economy of the world's largest. stocks in the u.s. open mostly low as lawmakers remains in a standoff over how to contend with federal debts and also ahead of the conference board's consumer companies thanks for too long european stock markets are trading plots with john b.p. suisse bank u.b.s. and chip maker best to mark the tronics all dropping after disappointing results b.p. fell two and a half percent in london after its earnings missed market expectations low production volumes here in russia markets closed mixed with the r.t.s. pointing upwards and in my stakes in the red bull majors among the main losers amid

we could crude have ended couple percent down well over a third of a percent bucking the trend is part of gold again point three percent off because of gold purchased eighty nine percent of the company to reverse takeover i think which calls about me to be capital wraps up today's trade. in terms of trading rooms the market remains very quiet and their stores are largely. trying to change and change their positioning. for users aleutian of the situation in europe and the us the focus and attention in the morning was it was in the old prices and the slow to the more positive mood in asia. but later on i was the optimism disappeared as a reality there are no real buyers and fuel prices unfortunately not really translate seem so the price is over the russian stops it is a little bit but not to the extent you would hope and that's how it looks that way

it will end quote close to five percent likely being up so basically no particularly serious momentum. despite a plea to pause expansion no russia's new bag is weighing up a new purchase and in the express credit market the country's second largest lender is considering buying a ten percent stake in home credit b.v. by the autumn he wants to buy a stake in the bank ahead of home crybabies listing the i.p.o. over twenty five percent stake is expected to raise around one billion dollars the company's t. asset is home credit and finance bank and russia the bank holds a quarter of a is all that is incredible mark. that's our update for this hour but don't forget you can always find all stories just log on to our websites our team dot com slash business thanks for.

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